Senior Manager, Fraud Risk

About Airwallex

Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 200,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale.

Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 2,000 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US $8 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future.

If you’re ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.

We hire successful builders with founder‑like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role‑related expertise and sharp thinking, and you’re motivated by our mission and operating principles
. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor.

You’re humble and collaborative; turn zero‑to‑one ideas into real products, and you “get stuff done” end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you’ll tackle complex, high‑visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let’s build what’s next.

About the team

The Legal, Risk & Compliance (LRC) team at Airwallex is a collaborative group of legal professionals and risk management experts. We’re passionate about safeguarding Airwallex’s operations, fostering a culture of compliance and integrity, and ensuring we navigate the global financial landscape responsibly. The team provides expert guidance and proactive support across all areas of the business—identifying, mitigating, and managing legal and financial risks to enable sustainable growth.

What you’ll do

As the Senior Manager, Fraud Risk, you will serve as a subject matter expert in fraud risk management within the Second Line of Defense risk team, reporting directly to the Director, Fraud Risk. You will be responsible for the implementation and management of fraud risk policies and oversight of fraud controls throughout the product and customer life cycles, to ensure that Airwallex effectively manages fraud risk and meets its regulatory and financial partner requirements.

The ideal candidate will have fraud risk oversight experience across a variety of customer and product domains, including across bank payments, platform, payment acquiring (cards and local payment methods) and issuing.

This role is based in Amsterdam, London, San Francisco, or Singapore.

Responsibilities:

• Own, develop and maintain Airwallex’s fraud risk framework, including ongoing review and monitoring against the approved board risk appetite for fraud
• Develop, implement, and maintain organizational fraud policies, ensuring these are fit-for-purpose for the scope of Airwallex’s customer portfolio and product suite
• Ensure the fraud incident reporting process is managed and maintained across all regions.
• Ensure timely reporting of fraud incidents to management and in compliance with global regulations
• Continuously evaluate and enhance fraud prevention measures, ensuring that policies align with industry best practices and regulatory requirements
• Oversee controls, procedures, and processes implemented by the 1st Line of Defense for transactional and account-related fraud
• Lead risk assessments where necessary into emerging fraud risks
• Work closely with cross‑functional teams to assess and address new fraud risks, and implement proactive strategies to mitigate these risks
• Work closely with the product, operations, legal and compliance teams to ensure that fraud risk management practices, product launches and business initiatives are aligned with the fraud risk…